"I will go and tell my uncle." But Phineas Duge already knew all about it.

He smiled when Virginia brought him her news.
"They must be desperate indeed," he said, "to run such risks.

However, I suppose they have bought these fellows' silence safe enough." The midday papers were full of the attempted burglary.

Before the magistrates, the man who had been apprehended said not a word.

He seemed to accept his position with stolid fatalism.